Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.
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- adjective
Shortened ; made briefer. - adjective Relatively short; shorter than normal, or compared to others.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
abbreviate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of clothing) very short
- adjective cut short in duration
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Examples
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Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of Floridians with financial means and political clout with the GOP power structure have bought into this increasingly popular, albeit wrongheaded, system of what I call abbreviated education on the cheap.
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Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of Floridians with financial means and political clout with the GOP power structure have bought into this increasingly popular, albeit wrongheaded, system of what I call abbreviated education on the cheap.
Archive 2003-07-01 2003
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The acronym abbreviated two Russian words, Avtomat Kalashnikova, the automatic by Kalashnikov, a nod to Senior Sergeant Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov, a twenty-nine-year-old former tank commander to whom the army and the Communist Party formally attributed the weapon’s design.
The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010
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The bigger punch-line, however, is that the founders of the social media site that requires its users to write in abbreviated, acronymized snippets have launched their own wine label to raise money for — of all things — literacy.
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Taken as a whole, these work represent the captured moments of stillness, where the corporeal world merges - in abbreviated gestures - with the spiritual.
Spotlight: Summer Mann Paintings at RoseGallery The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Taken as a whole, these work represent the captured moments of stillness, where the corporeal world merges - in abbreviated gestures - with the spiritual.
Spotlight: Summer Mann Paintings at RoseGallery The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Taken as a whole, these work represent the captured moments of stillness, where the corporeal world merges - in abbreviated gestures - with the spiritual.
Spotlight: Summer Mann Paintings at RoseGallery Melinda Brocka 2010
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The bigger punch-line, however, is that the founders of the social media site that requires its users to write in abbreviated, acronymized snippets have launched their own wine label to raise money for — of all things — literacy.
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Taken as a whole, these work represent the captured moments of stillness, where the corporeal world merges - in abbreviated gestures - with the spiritual.
Spotlight: Summer Mann Paintings at RoseGallery The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Taken as a whole, these work represent the captured moments of stillness, where the corporeal world merges - in abbreviated gestures - with the spiritual.
Spotlight: Summer Mann Paintings at RoseGallery The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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